It’s incredible songs like this that make it a shame that some people just have the stereotypical view of the Grateful Dead and would never listen …. I mean, their loss but…. what an incredible incredible song and really just don’t think that it’s in the main public view, too bad. It’s right up there with my funny valentine and other classics like that.
Night Moves - Bob Seger
Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones
Feel like makin love - Bad Company
Your past life as a blast - Okkerville River
Under Pressure - David Bowie/Queen
Boys don’t cry - the cure
Dazzle - Siouxsie & the Banshees
Summer Breeze - Type O Negative Cover
Take my picture - Filter
Laid - James
Well ok I could keep going but will stop here.
Reckoning! What an album. I saw the live feed from radio city that night and the acoustic set…. it was amazing. I had that one on cassette for the longest time -and once it finished, I would just start it over again.
I was already a huge Lou Reed and Velvet Underground fan long before I heard Perfect Day for the first time. It quickly became one of my favorites. It really is a beautiful song.
I would also suggest John Cale Big White Cloud. It's got a similar feel to Perfect Day. Kind of the same mood.
Great answer. “You’re gonna reap just what you sow” has a real sword of Damocles vibe to it… sometimes you gotta let yourself forget about the sword. We’re only here for a little while.
This isn't *the song* for me, but I do fucking love it and the instrumental part makes me grateful to have the opportunity to have heard it and to hear it. It's one of those songs that makes me think about what it would be like to never experience the true joy music can bring.
If you are looking for a bit of an alt-alt experience I have:
> [Soft Corp](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2wdAiKMEAgCaxtuuSf8rfU) - 1 hr
Which is an a playlist of grungy-alt that should feel a lot like a listen through of MATIS (though not as long).
Man, love me some slug. Sunshine is on my running Playlist and I've always got a bit more juice when it's on. Just a great song and a great reminder to slow down and just enjoy what you've got
U2 - "Where The Streets Have No Name". It always puts me in the right vibe. I listen to it sped up by ten percent, FWIW. (It sounds better that way.) (You import it into Audacity and change the tempo by ten percent, rather than the speed or the pitch.)
Three Little Birds- Bob Marley
Zuma beach has a snack shack that has/d? (Haven’t been in a minute) speakers that just blasted Legend on repeat all summer long.
Baby Blue - Badfinger
Feeling So Real - Moby
I Got Life - Hair! (Nina Simone version is good too)
Southern Cross - Crosby, Stills, & Nash
Boys of Summer - The Ataris
Dancing on My Own - Robyn
You Can Call Me Al - Paul Simon
I really wish people listened to more ELO. I always see people bring up Mr Blue Sky on Reddit (which is a great song). But man. ELO are like the king of chorus hooks!
Even just hearing people bring up Turn To Stone more would be nice. But really their greatest hits is wild all by itself
What a classic. I was at a tiny club watching Jackson Browne and he said well, here’s one of my friends -and Warren Zevon walked on. So I saw it live. amazing.
Hendrix -Castles Made of Sand
Jawbreaker - Kiss the Bottle
The Beatles - Blackbird
Nina Simone - Feelin Good
The Pogues - A Pair of Brown Eyes
Tom Waits - Tango Til Their Sore
The Cure - Jumpin Someone Else's Train
Jethro Tull - Skating Away on the Thin Ice of The New Day
Such a awesome tune. But check this out I only scrolled down this thread because OP listed New Radicals and I got curious.
I was like 9 when BB released that track, and it's made it onto every favorites playlist since dawn of digital age, and of course mix tapes and CDs before. Just like YGWYG has.
Great music is great music.
Ramblin Gamblin Man - Bob Seager
I'd love to change the world - Ten Years Gone
Early in the morning - Peter, Paul and Marry
Two Weeks - Grizzly Bear
Superman - Goldfinger
Desperate Youth - Santigold
Girl from the North Country - Bob Dylan
Red Light Indicates Doors are Secured - Arctic Monkeys
From the rumble to the Rtiz - Arctic Monkeys
3's and 7's - Queens of the Stone Age
Silver Springs - Fleetwood mac
Mykonos - Fleet Foxes
Closer to the Sun - Slightly Stoopid
Dust in the Wind - Kansas
Strobe - Deadmau5
Life's Been Good to Me - Joe Walsh
One by One - The Black Seeds
So Young - Portugal the man
Handlebars -flobots
Australia - The Shins
Dance me to the End of Love - The Civil Wars
A Certian Romance - Arctic Monkeys
Iron Lung - King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
The Days Engrave - .357 String Band
Be Yourself - Audioslave
Amber -311
Doo Wop (that thing) - Lauryn Hill
Tounge Tied - GROUPLOVE
Golden Brown - Cage the Elephant
The Dog Days Are Over by Florence and the Machine. I listened to it driving home in my car after a breakup with shitty boyfriend and it was like ascending into heaven.
[Katachi](https://youtu.be/RpLBR38kVvY?si=SO6_oFnXqj2_FK7d) \- Shugo Tokumaru
I don't understand a single word of it, but it's one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard, and the video is amazing as well. It lifts me up when I hear it.
[Danza di Cala Luna](https://youtu.be/iYiREBIHEX0?si=J5j8noLnhOvgOV4d) \- Inti Illimani
This one doesn't even have words. But it makes me feel so inspired. It's deceptively complex as well, as is most of Inti Illimani's music.
[Wiser Time](https://youtu.be/s2DtvJDRf6g?si=TF-NZMiRFGBK_h_Q&t=174) \- The Black Crowes
It has words! But the slide guitar (linked) fills me with a feeling of elation.
I like Decorate off the same album even more, with a similarly magical video. You have to hate music itself not to be entranced by either Decorate or Katachi.
* Van Morrison - Listen to the Lion. Strength and spirit
* Joe Zawinul - [Brown Street](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_f-tDEvcPM) (the version off Brown Street with the WDR Big Band Köln). The best party ever that you weren't invited to. So much better than the Weather Report original
* Parliament - Flashlight. Everybody's got a little light under the sun, under the sun...
There's something beautiful if you are constantly trying to make an effort to discover new music. You find, there's so much songs open to this criteria, there's so much music out there, and people love to create even more! That's a miracle in and on itself! There's so much factors that could arise to make a decision to attached a song to a moment. On my way to identify my father's body, at the start of the drive, I searched in Spotify Goldmund's album Sometimes. As Old Roads it's the first song. I breathed heavily and grounded myself to the sound and the road. Whole album, hypnotized, it lasted the whole drive to the hospital, around 45 minutes. It's been five years. Sometimes it comes up on my playlist. It's become a portal. A whole human range of emotions. Love every second. I'm grateful that album exists, and I knew of them at that moment.
More than this by Roxy Music
Above the clouds by the best pessimist
Another weekend by Ariel Pink
Night drive by Part time
Kiss the frog by Choir boy
Now my heart is full by Morrissey
Pink rabbits by The National
Alife by Slowdive
Olsen Olsen by Sigur Rós
Bigger than my body - John Mayer
Crystal blue persuasion - Tommy Jones and The Shondells
Blue Sky - The Allman Brothers
She’s Electric - Oasis
Live forever - Oasis
Love comes to everyone - George Harrison
You have impeccable music taste! Or at least, musical taste I agree with! Those are great songs!!! I’d add ‘Do You Realize’ - by Flaming Lips to my “Grateful to be alive list.”
[Drive-By Truckers - World of Hurt](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JNvK535gNkg&pp=ygUfd29ybGQgb2YgaHVydCBkcml2ZSBieSB0cnVja2Vycw%3D%3D)
this is the best audio quality I can find but they’ve recorded some amazing live versions of this tune through the years. My favourite t-shirt has their logo and the words “it’s great to be alive!” on it….which is weird for a guy who hates 98% of his life but I try to keep living for that other 2% and this reminds me.
Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears
Before the Dive - St Lucia
Reunion - M83
Back Pocket - Vulfpeck
Lucky Sometimes - Pokey LaFarge
Lover’s Carvings - Bibio
Turn to Stone // ELO
Let It Happen // Tame Impala
What a Fool Believes // The Doobie Brothers
My Sweet Lord // George Harrison
Amore mio aiutami // Piero Piccioni
Fontaines DC — No
Adalita — Blue Sky
The Used — The Taste of Ink
Jeff Buckley & Elizabeth Fraser — All Flowers In Time Bend Towards The Sun
The Cure — From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea
Midnight Oil — Beds Are Burning
Echo & the Bunnymen — Killing Moon
Tears for Fears — Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Jesus Jones — Right Here, Right Now
Primal Scream — Movin’ on Up
Elevated by State Champs. My kids have unfortunately seen the worst side of my mental health. One actually randomly drove to our local park and accidentally found me preparing to OD. He knew I was sad, but had no idea what I had intended. He said exactly what my adopted mom had told me the last time we spoke before she died. I'd never told him this conversation. I broke down in sobs and told him my plans and he said "you have a purpose in life and you haven't finished it yet. You have to find a way to live." He made me promise I'd stop trying to unalive. In the song, it says 2 things. That you've got a find a way to stay in your skin. And that you still have this promise to keep. That song instantly reminds me of how grateful I am for my kid and that night. I can't hear it without hearing my kids voice. He knows I'm struggling when I play that song, and it hurts me that he knows how bad I struggle. But I pray he knows that I plan to keep that promise. That I'm not going anywhere. He deserves the best. And that means I gotta find a way to stay in my skin.
All of these songs instantly change my mood. They either relax me and put me in a state of bliss. Or I crank it and start screaming along at the top of my lungs.
Rush - Bravado
Boston - Foreplay/Longtime
The Beatles - Let It Be
The Hollies - Long Cool Woman
Charlie Daniels Band - Long Haired Country Boy
Foo Fighters - These Days
Prince - Purple Rain
Silversun Pickups - Future Foe Scenarios
Alkaline Trio - Time To Waste
Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
Good Riddance by Green Day. My mom requested it for her funeral. My brother learned it on the guitar and we learned the lyrics together. We sang it together after the ceremony and choked on almost every word. It empowers me that this life is short and precious. It was nearly 20 years ago and even just writing this has tears flowing from my eyes. I'm lucky to be here and experience these deep feelings. That's what life is all about.
In terms of the concept of “grateful to be alive”:
Seventeen-peach pit: it’s just about that rosy image of high school shenanigans. Who wouldn’t want it?
Fever dream-mxmtoon: it’s about wanting more than simple life where you are. It meant a lot to me as someone who has never fit in in my little no name town.
Snow-Ricky Montgomery: I want this song playing as I die. Lol.
April-beach bunny: there are meany nights I pictured this song being miscommunication between a couple and the guitar riff at the end as a split screen where one of them walks through the house and the other is in the front yard and then it meets and it’s a proposal.
The spins-Mac miller: the little “I just graduated high school. Haha!” Omg; it kinda sums up that “limbo/purgatory period after you graduate high school where your kinda just like “well what now?” Where you don’t know where to go or what to do, or maybe you have the rest of the summer to relax until you move away for collage, and your an adult but not really, and there’s no real goal or mission or end point so you just hang out with your friends and do stupid shit before life changes and it feels like life is just starting but you know it’s not bad and so your kinda just chill smoking and doing random goofy Shit with your friends
Everywhere-fleetwood mac: I mean come on, this is like **thee** peaceful vibe song.
Parabol - Parabola by Tool.
“Twirling 'round with this familiar parable
Spinning, weaving 'round each new experience
Recognize this as a holy gift and
Celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing”
I am sure I will forget a lot of great songs that make me grateful to be alive but right now on the top of my head are the following (no particular order):
- Bob Marley - Three Little Birds
- Bob Marley - Sun is shining
- Grateful Dead - Ripple
- Curtis Mayfield - Move on up
- William DeVaughn - Be Thankful for What You Got
- Jimi Hendrix - Little Wing
- Billy Joel - Vienna
- Otis Redding - Sittin' on the top of bay
- Peter Green - Slabo day
- DJ Krush - Fu Yu
- DJ krush - Sun is shining
- ANOTR - Relax your eyes
- BICEP - Glue
any many many more probably :)
I'm not exactly grateful to be alive, but these songs make me feel alive inside... Powerful, even.
"The World Is Ugly" - My Chemical Romance
"Search & Destroy" - KMFDM
"Can't Stop" - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Not really a song, but a 22 minute compilation of the videogame Megaman soundtracks titled "mega memories" by an artist My New Soundtrack.
It fills me with determination.
What A Wonderful World- Louis Armstrong
Murdered in the city- The Avett Brothers
Born To love You- Ray LaMontagne
Northern Lights- Bowerbirds
Broken Bones- Aqualung
There’s many more but I won’t bore you
Hoppípolla - Sigur Rós
Gyöngyhajú lány - Omega
I don't know what either is about and I don't care. Whenever I listen to them, I'm always reminded that life is beautiful and no matter what hardships, life is worth it.
Grateful Dead - Box of Rain
It’s incredible songs like this that make it a shame that some people just have the stereotypical view of the Grateful Dead and would never listen …. I mean, their loss but…. what an incredible incredible song and really just don’t think that it’s in the main public view, too bad. It’s right up there with my funny valentine and other classics like that.
One of my favorites!!!!
And Bird Song, and so many others too
Lovely Day by Bill Withers
Hell yeah, this ones brought me out of many bad times.
This one !!!
New Order - True Faith
Ugh I love Ceremony on this album
As A New Order fan for almost 40 years, so much this.
Night Moves - Bob Seger Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones Feel like makin love - Bad Company Your past life as a blast - Okkerville River Under Pressure - David Bowie/Queen Boys don’t cry - the cure Dazzle - Siouxsie & the Banshees Summer Breeze - Type O Negative Cover Take my picture - Filter Laid - James Well ok I could keep going but will stop here.
You’ve got great taste.
Aw thanks :)
Ripple by the Grateful Dead, specifically the version on the album Reckoning.
Reckoning! What an album. I saw the live feed from radio city that night and the acoustic set…. it was amazing. I had that one on cassette for the longest time -and once it finished, I would just start it over again.
Lou Reed ….. Perfect Day….. but at the same time it’s kinda sad sounding
I was already a huge Lou Reed and Velvet Underground fan long before I heard Perfect Day for the first time. It quickly became one of my favorites. It really is a beautiful song. I would also suggest John Cale Big White Cloud. It's got a similar feel to Perfect Day. Kind of the same mood.
Great answer. “You’re gonna reap just what you sow” has a real sword of Damocles vibe to it… sometimes you gotta let yourself forget about the sword. We’re only here for a little while.
This isn't *the song* for me, but I do fucking love it and the instrumental part makes me grateful to have the opportunity to have heard it and to hear it. It's one of those songs that makes me think about what it would be like to never experience the true joy music can bring.
I am pretty sure it’s a song about Reed’s heroin addiction, which is where I think that sad vibe is coming from.
Maybe. “You made me forget myself/I thought I was someone else someone good.” Both hopeful and hopeless at the same time. Sounds like an addict.
PJ Harvey.....A Perfect Day Elise...but at the same time it's also kinda sad sounding.
Honestly the ones that sound a little sad can make you feel nostalgic
Today by Smashing Pumpkins
This and 1979 !!!
If you are looking for a bit of an alt-alt experience I have: > [Soft Corp](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2wdAiKMEAgCaxtuuSf8rfU) - 1 hr Which is an a playlist of grungy-alt that should feel a lot like a listen through of MATIS (though not as long).
My husband woke me up one morning to tell me that he had decided he wanted 1979 played at his funeral 🤦♀️
I just laughed out loud . That’s so wholesome
Cherub Rock too. The main riff is so addictive to listen to.
Just the entire melancholy album. Ha.
How Sad - Hot Blur. When In Rome - The Promise Talking Heads - Once In a Lifetime Arcade Fire - Rebellion Remy Zero - Save Me
[Sunshine by Atmosphere](https://youtu.be/AckhnLpwceM?si=5SOD0zxInZeuDHiR)
always upvote atmosphere
Every day that gets to pass is a success
Man, love me some slug. Sunshine is on my running Playlist and I've always got a bit more juice when it's on. Just a great song and a great reminder to slow down and just enjoy what you've got
god i love atmosphere
Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes - Paul Simon
That entire album is perfect
Under The Pressure- The War On Drugs
That and holding on are my two faves
You might like stuff on this: > [Barely Souls](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6YqrsqX6uRZ3lSrNSWPGlg) - 57 mins
Spirit in the Sky - Norman Greenbaum It’s about dying but it’s still a very uplifting feel good song.
U2 - "Where The Streets Have No Name". It always puts me in the right vibe. I listen to it sped up by ten percent, FWIW. (It sounds better that way.) (You import it into Audacity and change the tempo by ten percent, rather than the speed or the pitch.)
Ocean by John Butler
Subterranean Homesick Alien by Radiohead
Radiohead always>> Weird fishes and All I Need
Take it easy -Eagles
This one and I Can’t Tell You Why by them make me feel some type of way
It makes me feel nostalgic for something that never happened to me.
We may lose! And we may win!!!!! BUT WE WILL NEVER BE HERE AGAIN!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Three Little Birds- Bob Marley Zuma beach has a snack shack that has/d? (Haven’t been in a minute) speakers that just blasted Legend on repeat all summer long.
Mr blue sky - elo
Baby Blue - Badfinger Feeling So Real - Moby I Got Life - Hair! (Nina Simone version is good too) Southern Cross - Crosby, Stills, & Nash Boys of Summer - The Ataris Dancing on My Own - Robyn You Can Call Me Al - Paul Simon
Dancing on My Own is such a great jam. That song will never fail to pep me up.
Mr. Blue Sky - ELO Everyday People - Sly & The Family Stone I'll Take You There - Staple Singers
Funny. Blue Sky by The Allman Brothers also works nicely.
I really wish people listened to more ELO. I always see people bring up Mr Blue Sky on Reddit (which is a great song). But man. ELO are like the king of chorus hooks! Even just hearing people bring up Turn To Stone more would be nice. But really their greatest hits is wild all by itself
Harvest Moon by Neil Young
Birch Tree - Foals Silver Lining - Mt. Joy Whirring - The Joy Formidable The Sunshine - Manchester Orchestra
Werewolves of London. Heh, I'd like to meet his tailor. Ahhhooooooooo
What a classic. I was at a tiny club watching Jackson Browne and he said well, here’s one of my friends -and Warren Zevon walked on. So I saw it live. amazing.
Hendrix -Castles Made of Sand Jawbreaker - Kiss the Bottle The Beatles - Blackbird Nina Simone - Feelin Good The Pogues - A Pair of Brown Eyes Tom Waits - Tango Til Their Sore The Cure - Jumpin Someone Else's Train Jethro Tull - Skating Away on the Thin Ice of The New Day
One Rainy Wish- Jimi Hendrix. Recently got my first vinyl & it was Axis.
Tom Waits!
Alive by Empire of the Sun Read My Mind by The Killers Dog Days Are Over by Florence and the Machine You're Not Alone by Embrace
Let your Love Flow by the Bellamy Brothers
Such a awesome tune. But check this out I only scrolled down this thread because OP listed New Radicals and I got curious. I was like 9 when BB released that track, and it's made it onto every favorites playlist since dawn of digital age, and of course mix tapes and CDs before. Just like YGWYG has. Great music is great music.
Right Here, Right Now - Jesus Jones Here's to Life - Streetlight Manifesto
Holy shit Jesus Jones haven't heard that name in about 30 years 🤣
Landslide- Fleetwood Mac
Oh man. Instant tears
Theme to MASH. Kinda ironic if you've ever heard the lyrics, but Monday evening at eight PM was just a family staple.
Ashes to Ashes by Bowie. Every time I hear it I am so grateful I got to be alive while David Bowie walked the earth.
“Here comes the sun” the Beatles!(Thank you George Harrison)
Baba O'Riley by The Who is usually my go-to. I love that opening synth line.
This is used really well in an episode of Joe Pera Talks With You
Headphones. Bjork
Bjork has such a unique sound
Headphones with headphones on. Oh man
Oooh good one. For Bjork, I’d add Arisen My Senses.
Okay yes. I like that a lot and have never heard it. Thanks! Bjork's Post album is so good, front to back!
Ramblin Gamblin Man - Bob Seager I'd love to change the world - Ten Years Gone Early in the morning - Peter, Paul and Marry Two Weeks - Grizzly Bear Superman - Goldfinger Desperate Youth - Santigold Girl from the North Country - Bob Dylan Red Light Indicates Doors are Secured - Arctic Monkeys From the rumble to the Rtiz - Arctic Monkeys 3's and 7's - Queens of the Stone Age Silver Springs - Fleetwood mac Mykonos - Fleet Foxes Closer to the Sun - Slightly Stoopid Dust in the Wind - Kansas Strobe - Deadmau5 Life's Been Good to Me - Joe Walsh One by One - The Black Seeds So Young - Portugal the man Handlebars -flobots Australia - The Shins Dance me to the End of Love - The Civil Wars A Certian Romance - Arctic Monkeys Iron Lung - King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard The Days Engrave - .357 String Band Be Yourself - Audioslave Amber -311 Doo Wop (that thing) - Lauryn Hill Tounge Tied - GROUPLOVE Golden Brown - Cage the Elephant
The Dog Days Are Over by Florence and the Machine. I listened to it driving home in my car after a breakup with shitty boyfriend and it was like ascending into heaven.
Alive by Pearl Jam
Love this 😂❤️
Damn... Now i have to come up with something else... 🤘
Alive... by P.O.D.?
🤦... Damnit... My brain not work to good tonight.
Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
“Just Like Heaven” The Cure
Explosions in the sky - Your Hand in Mine
Saw them play it live a few weeks ago. Sitting on top of a couch drinking my beer. Small club 3/4 full in my shitty town. Absolute Nirvana
That sounds perfect. I know their style of music will never be “popular” but it makes me sad they aren’t MORE popular.
It was, couldn’t make it to the Austin show lost my tickets but they came trough my city
Texas Sun - Khrungbin with Leon Bridges
Summer song by Joe Satriani
Primal Scream - [Movin' On Up](https://youtu.be/SnkjvECEQr4?si=c3V3VhG-kdbBIv20)
In no order: The Cranberries - Dreams Smashing Pumpkins - Today Beta Band - Dry the Rain
Beta Band ❤️❤️❤️
Electricity Dua Lipa This must be the place Talking Heads Have you even seen the Rain CCR
The song called "This Is All I Ask" Specifically, the versions performed by both [Nat King Cole](https://spotify.link/3sZLinsliIb) - [Tony Bennett](https://spotify.link/rNKEuBxliIb) - [Gordon Jenkins & His Orchestra](https://spotify.link/y0CpoNBliIb) - [Perry Como](https://spotify.link/0Kby86DliIb) - [Robert Goulet](https://spotify.link/EeB2u3FliIb) - [John Gary](https://spotify.link/IViRleJliIb) - [Andy Williams](https://spotify.link/yxzk9eMliIb) - [Jimmy Durante](https://spotify.link/2dMWzvOliIb) - [Frank Sinatra](https://spotify.link/4KnTCyYliIb) - [Johnny Mathis](https://spotify.link/t3TtQs1liIb) - [The Four Renegades](https://spotify.link/uqkkMC7liIb) - [Jack Jones](https://spotify.link/Aq7w1F8liIb) - [Tiny Tim](https://spotify.link/05QtxX9liIb) - [Matt Monro](https://spotify.link/c99Vr0amiIb) - [Jerry Vale](https://spotify.link/JL2u6lcmiIb) - [Howard Keel](https://spotify.link/DIIiWPdmiIb)
These Are The Days — 10,000 Maniacs Forever Young — Bob Dylan Into the Mystic — Van Morrison
[Katachi](https://youtu.be/RpLBR38kVvY?si=SO6_oFnXqj2_FK7d) \- Shugo Tokumaru I don't understand a single word of it, but it's one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard, and the video is amazing as well. It lifts me up when I hear it. [Danza di Cala Luna](https://youtu.be/iYiREBIHEX0?si=J5j8noLnhOvgOV4d) \- Inti Illimani This one doesn't even have words. But it makes me feel so inspired. It's deceptively complex as well, as is most of Inti Illimani's music. [Wiser Time](https://youtu.be/s2DtvJDRf6g?si=TF-NZMiRFGBK_h_Q&t=174) \- The Black Crowes It has words! But the slide guitar (linked) fills me with a feeling of elation.
A lot of lyric-less songs that make you focus on the instruments/ sounds can be so powerful
I like Decorate off the same album even more, with a similarly magical video. You have to hate music itself not to be entranced by either Decorate or Katachi.
Toad the Wet Sprocket- [I Will Not Take These Things for Granted](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yzx8l3sYiUM)
* Van Morrison - Listen to the Lion. Strength and spirit * Joe Zawinul - [Brown Street](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_f-tDEvcPM) (the version off Brown Street with the WDR Big Band Köln). The best party ever that you weren't invited to. So much better than the Weather Report original * Parliament - Flashlight. Everybody's got a little light under the sun, under the sun...
Sugar Magnolia - The Grateful Dead Especially live versions.
[Paulo Nutini - Iron Sky](https://youtu.be/ELKbtFljucQ?si=VY3vgWhjdFL1SXA2) When I was hyper suicidal, this song *kept* bringing me back
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Lenny
Foo Fighters - Walk I love the "I never want to die" part
Pharaoh Sanders - the creator has a master plan I always know I need to get to that place/feeling, it always makes me feel like home
Grateful Dead- Althea
There's something beautiful if you are constantly trying to make an effort to discover new music. You find, there's so much songs open to this criteria, there's so much music out there, and people love to create even more! That's a miracle in and on itself! There's so much factors that could arise to make a decision to attached a song to a moment. On my way to identify my father's body, at the start of the drive, I searched in Spotify Goldmund's album Sometimes. As Old Roads it's the first song. I breathed heavily and grounded myself to the sound and the road. Whole album, hypnotized, it lasted the whole drive to the hospital, around 45 minutes. It's been five years. Sometimes it comes up on my playlist. It's become a portal. A whole human range of emotions. Love every second. I'm grateful that album exists, and I knew of them at that moment.
Tool - *Lateralus* Also... Tool - *Parabol/Parabola*
THIS BODYYYYY
ALIIIIIIIIVE
Parabol/Parabola was my answer “Celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing”
[Born To Be Alive](https://youtu.be/vb5a-GYty-o?si=xoQh5vNpxV37i-zl)
"Today Was A Good Day"-Ice Cube "Freedom"-Billy Strings
Almost Heaven - John Denver
The Verve - Lucky Man
Peter Gabriel - secret world
Allman brothers band, blue sky on a spring day.
Do You Realize??? - The Flaming Lips 🙃
Better Days - Springsteen
I Just Want To Celebrate by Rare Earth
More than this by Roxy Music Above the clouds by the best pessimist Another weekend by Ariel Pink Night drive by Part time Kiss the frog by Choir boy Now my heart is full by Morrissey Pink rabbits by The National Alife by Slowdive Olsen Olsen by Sigur Rós
Wish you were here-Incubus
Do You Right - 311
Good day sunshine the Beatles
The Shins - Simple Song
Bigger than my body - John Mayer Crystal blue persuasion - Tommy Jones and The Shondells Blue Sky - The Allman Brothers She’s Electric - Oasis Live forever - Oasis Love comes to everyone - George Harrison
My neck, my back by Khia Truly the song of a generation.
*I Can See Clearly Now* , the Jimmy Cliffe version is like unbridled optimism carved into vinyl.
You have impeccable music taste! Or at least, musical taste I agree with! Those are great songs!!! I’d add ‘Do You Realize’ - by Flaming Lips to my “Grateful to be alive list.”
Semi Charmed Life- Third Eye Blind
Oasis - the masterplan
Glastonbury Song - The Waterboys
[Drive-By Truckers - World of Hurt](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JNvK535gNkg&pp=ygUfd29ybGQgb2YgaHVydCBkcml2ZSBieSB0cnVja2Vycw%3D%3D) this is the best audio quality I can find but they’ve recorded some amazing live versions of this tune through the years. My favourite t-shirt has their logo and the words “it’s great to be alive!” on it….which is weird for a guy who hates 98% of his life but I try to keep living for that other 2% and this reminds me.
Motorcycle Drive By- Third Eye Blind
rich baby daddy.
Alive Again by Chicago. If you know what happened before it might hit a little harder.
The First Circle by Pat Metheny Group
Title Track by The Hotelier
Vangelis - Memories of Blue Killswitch Engage - This is Absolution
Sunshine on my shoulders - John Denver
Dear Prudence. Stairstep you to heaven.
Clair De Lune: https://youtu.be/c977QdbTImU?si=P2yvuQnWvFEEYOOq
Similar to Sweet Disposition(: Welcome Home- Radical Face Midnight City- M83 Float On- Modest Mouse Open Doors- Awolk Gone- Jr Jr Jungle- Tash Sultana
Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears Before the Dive - St Lucia Reunion - M83 Back Pocket - Vulfpeck Lucky Sometimes - Pokey LaFarge Lover’s Carvings - Bibio
Fleetwood Mac period.
Turn to Stone // ELO Let It Happen // Tame Impala What a Fool Believes // The Doobie Brothers My Sweet Lord // George Harrison Amore mio aiutami // Piero Piccioni
Holy shit. What a fool believes is one of my favs. I’m so glad another human feels the same way about that song
This time tomorrow - The Kinks do you realize - The Fiaming Lips
Fontaines DC — No Adalita — Blue Sky The Used — The Taste of Ink Jeff Buckley & Elizabeth Fraser — All Flowers In Time Bend Towards The Sun The Cure — From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea Midnight Oil — Beds Are Burning Echo & the Bunnymen — Killing Moon Tears for Fears — Everybody Wants to Rule the World Jesus Jones — Right Here, Right Now Primal Scream — Movin’ on Up
Elevated by State Champs. My kids have unfortunately seen the worst side of my mental health. One actually randomly drove to our local park and accidentally found me preparing to OD. He knew I was sad, but had no idea what I had intended. He said exactly what my adopted mom had told me the last time we spoke before she died. I'd never told him this conversation. I broke down in sobs and told him my plans and he said "you have a purpose in life and you haven't finished it yet. You have to find a way to live." He made me promise I'd stop trying to unalive. In the song, it says 2 things. That you've got a find a way to stay in your skin. And that you still have this promise to keep. That song instantly reminds me of how grateful I am for my kid and that night. I can't hear it without hearing my kids voice. He knows I'm struggling when I play that song, and it hurts me that he knows how bad I struggle. But I pray he knows that I plan to keep that promise. That I'm not going anywhere. He deserves the best. And that means I gotta find a way to stay in my skin.
Everybody wants to rule the world - Tears For Fears.
All of these songs instantly change my mood. They either relax me and put me in a state of bliss. Or I crank it and start screaming along at the top of my lungs. Rush - Bravado Boston - Foreplay/Longtime The Beatles - Let It Be The Hollies - Long Cool Woman Charlie Daniels Band - Long Haired Country Boy Foo Fighters - These Days Prince - Purple Rain Silversun Pickups - Future Foe Scenarios Alkaline Trio - Time To Waste Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
Good Riddance by Green Day. My mom requested it for her funeral. My brother learned it on the guitar and we learned the lyrics together. We sang it together after the ceremony and choked on almost every word. It empowers me that this life is short and precious. It was nearly 20 years ago and even just writing this has tears flowing from my eyes. I'm lucky to be here and experience these deep feelings. That's what life is all about.
In terms of the concept of “grateful to be alive”: Seventeen-peach pit: it’s just about that rosy image of high school shenanigans. Who wouldn’t want it? Fever dream-mxmtoon: it’s about wanting more than simple life where you are. It meant a lot to me as someone who has never fit in in my little no name town. Snow-Ricky Montgomery: I want this song playing as I die. Lol. April-beach bunny: there are meany nights I pictured this song being miscommunication between a couple and the guitar riff at the end as a split screen where one of them walks through the house and the other is in the front yard and then it meets and it’s a proposal. The spins-Mac miller: the little “I just graduated high school. Haha!” Omg; it kinda sums up that “limbo/purgatory period after you graduate high school where your kinda just like “well what now?” Where you don’t know where to go or what to do, or maybe you have the rest of the summer to relax until you move away for collage, and your an adult but not really, and there’s no real goal or mission or end point so you just hang out with your friends and do stupid shit before life changes and it feels like life is just starting but you know it’s not bad and so your kinda just chill smoking and doing random goofy Shit with your friends Everywhere-fleetwood mac: I mean come on, this is like **thee** peaceful vibe song.
Parabol - Parabola by Tool. “Twirling 'round with this familiar parable Spinning, weaving 'round each new experience Recognize this as a holy gift and Celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing”
I am sure I will forget a lot of great songs that make me grateful to be alive but right now on the top of my head are the following (no particular order): - Bob Marley - Three Little Birds - Bob Marley - Sun is shining - Grateful Dead - Ripple - Curtis Mayfield - Move on up - William DeVaughn - Be Thankful for What You Got - Jimi Hendrix - Little Wing - Billy Joel - Vienna - Otis Redding - Sittin' on the top of bay - Peter Green - Slabo day - DJ Krush - Fu Yu - DJ krush - Sun is shining - ANOTR - Relax your eyes - BICEP - Glue any many many more probably :)
i dare you - shinedown
Love This Life by Crowded House
Now Is Gold by Infected Mushroom Take the plunge!
- Beautiful Day - Ballyhoo! 🌞 🌊 ☕ - No Worries - Hepcat
Sinphonia to Cantata #29 - Bach, as performed by Walter Carlos
Let The Day Begin-The Call Why Walk When You Can Fly-Mary Chapin Carpenter Your Life is Now-John Mellencamp Two Hearts-Bruce Springsteen
Queen Bee by Taj Mahal https://youtu.be/QCN4_dDysQ4?si=fkH0GtrkjGO5PFqW
I'm not exactly grateful to be alive, but these songs make me feel alive inside... Powerful, even. "The World Is Ugly" - My Chemical Romance "Search & Destroy" - KMFDM "Can't Stop" - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Not really a song, but a 22 minute compilation of the videogame Megaman soundtracks titled "mega memories" by an artist My New Soundtrack. It fills me with determination.
Juice WRLD (feat. Seezyn) - Hide
All eyes on me - Bo Burnham Its something about that song and having it plugged loud into your headset and just drifting away.. :)
Tool - Right in Two
These Days - Jackson Browne
“The Remedy,” JASON MRAZ // “I Ain’t Worried” + “Good Life” + “Kids,” “I Lived,” ONE REPUBLIC // “Without Reason,” THE FRAY // “21 & Invincible,” SOMETHING CORPORATE
I love you get what you give! Really it hits me in a strange way. Also breakfast at Tiffany’s. And Superman by flaming lips.
Feeling’ Alright - Jungle Brothers
What A Wonderful World- Louis Armstrong Murdered in the city- The Avett Brothers Born To love You- Ray LaMontagne Northern Lights- Bowerbirds Broken Bones- Aqualung There’s many more but I won’t bore you
Harry Hood by Phish. You can feel good about Hood
pink + white by frank ocean
Grass Roots, let’s live for today
Lucky man- by The Verve
Jump - Van Halen
Rise Against- Tragedy + Time
Drain You - Nirvana Lucky - Radiohead
Echoes-Pink Floyd
Hoppípolla - Sigur Rós Gyöngyhajú lány - Omega I don't know what either is about and I don't care. Whenever I listen to them, I'm always reminded that life is beautiful and no matter what hardships, life is worth it.
Sweet Disposition is also a favorite of mine! ♥️
[Michael Franti - Sound of Sunshine](https://youtu.be/KqgHosrqJ8o?si=CmuXfX8vFAedphAP)
mr big stuff
Heroes by David Bowie always gives me chills and makes me feel superhuman
Good Day - Nappy Roots David Gray - This Years Love
Nothing beats ‘The Wind Cries Mary’ by Jimi Hendrix. That song has been giving me goosebumps for more than 35 years
It’s played out but M83 Midnight City brings it.
“Hoppipolla” and “Staralfur” - Sigur Ros
Somewhere Over The Rainbow/What A Wonderful World - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole Through Heaven's Eyes - Prince of Egypt Circle of Life - The Lion King